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delicate and agreeable. (Op. cit., p. 577.) The sup- 
d alexipharmic properties of this plant have long since 
on time but it appears to be an agreeable copra 
_ hard and woody, bark light brown and corky; leaves opposite, 
3 elliptic-lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, glabrous, very 
- thin, unequal in size, 2—-5 by 1—24 in. , calyx-tube turbinate, 
mb 5-cleft ; covollatube snfundibaliform, short, hairy within, 
mb 5- bias stamens enclosed ; capsule compressed, crowned 
ith the calycine segments, 2-celled, 2-valved; seeds 
umerous, somewhat hexagonal; cymes peduncled, terminal, 
hese Mempler's description SDpaets more Pug to 
Chemical composition. —A decoction of ‘the an vine 
Starch but no astringent matter, An alcoholic extract evapo- 
ents, but showed no disposition to crystallize on gentle eva- 
Bescriptiot small shrubby plant, 1 to 14 foot; stems 
Benched ; flowers nearly sessile, white. The root consists of 
ation of these solutions. The filtrate from the. resin was : 
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